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Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces - available to buy!
Architectural researcher Dr Jonathan Orlek's brand-new publication, Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces is now available to buy.
Architectural researcher Dr Jonathan Orlek's brand-new publication, Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces is now available to buy.
Are you an artist using sound and audio-visual media at the core of your practice? Do you want to collaborate with communities and other artists to develop new artworks? Apply now! Deadline 12pm, Sunday 5 May 2024.
Visual artist Herfa Martina Thompson and Law lecturer Dr Zoe Tongue first collaborated as part of Leeds Creative Labs, a programme that partners artists and academics, initiated by the University of Leeds’ Cultural Institute and facilitated in partnership with East Street Arts.
We're working with Leeds-based, Iranian-born illustrator and printmaker Mohammad Barrangi to bring three large-scale paper murals to the streets of Leeds.
Do you make books or printed materials on artist-led housing, live/work spaces, civic practice or living archives? Contribute now! Together we can learn.
Artists and activists get together to present their work and experience on setting up collectively owned spaces, artist-led houses and documenting change in a city of disappearing houses and public spaces.
This LGBT+ History Month, performance artist, writer and radical creator Harry Clayton-Wright shares a manifesto for a brighter, safer and queerer future.
We caught up with Sarah Francis to talk about how her work has developed a year on from her seed commission at Convention House, and what’s next for her practice. Seed commissions allowed artists/collectives to discover the next steps in their artistic practice, thanks to the Weston Culture Fund.
On 3rd October, we unveiled Reflections of Carnival - a new mural by artist and costume designer Rhian Kempadoo-Millar - in Chapeltown, in partnership with Leeds West Indian Carnival and Leeds City Council.
After their recent exchange residencies in partnership with Platform Asia, we caught up with artists Jui-Hung Ni and Sayang.
We sat down with Julia McKinlay in her studio, at Patrick Studios, to catch up with her about her upcoming residency/exhibition with Hiroko Nakajima at the Nakanojo Biennale exhibited from 9 September, her practice, and her process of working.
We're thrilled to announce that visual artist and costume designer Rhian Kempadoo-Millar has been selected to design a new mural in Chapeltown, which celebrates the rich, vibrant history of Leeds West Indian Carnival.